Argentine Spanish Slang

Che Pibe it’s Argentine Slang

Argentinians have there own strange way of pronouncing Spanish. Apparently the way they speak is most similar to the Italian spoken in Naples than normal Spanish. So apart from changing the phonetic pronunciation of ‘y’ & ‘ll’ to the French ‘zh’ sound the rest will be just like common Spanish. If you think that Argentinians are nothing more than extreme carnivores and maté addicts they are also very good at sports.

Che This is the Argentinian Flag

Quintessential Argentinian

Che!– man! You’ll be hard pressed finding any word used as much as Che! Usually at the front of the sentence, it is a word that doesn’t really need translation, as, even though it has a meaning, it can be somewhat meaningless.
Often heard ‘Che boludo” meaning “man, you idiot”
Also the form of voseo (you) used in Argentina immediately distinguishes them from other Spanish speakers.

¿Viste?
Put mostly at the end of words, to mean: “understood?”

In Spain this might be a snob zone as stated in this advertisement, but in Argentina this would be a penis zone

El Voseo

This form of the verb ‘tu/you’ is unique to Argentina and adjoining Uruguay. The 3 forms of you are listed below in order from normal 1.Castellano Español, to the 2.Argentine ‘vos’ form which has it’s own conjugations & lastly the other 3.‘vos’ forms encountered in the Spanish speaking world including parts of Colombia, Venezuela & parts of Spain.

Commands (Imperative)

Street Talk Argentinian Mix

Argentianians are per capita the heavyweights of Spanish rock music. They have such a huge list of successful performers for such a small population. There is also a great site from Argentina called ZonaIndie where you can see what’s new in the Argentinian indie music scene and also sometimes get some free downloads of some great new Argentinian indie acts.